Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Nothing much interesting to say. Feeling stressed out and deeply misanthropic for a whole spectrum of reasons. NOLA is nice but intermittently scary, like Monday when the entire neighborhood flooded and half the cars on the block were ruined. Got a free couch and loveseat, which is nice. Have a ton of work lining up in front of me, and a ton of move-related debts to work off.

The Internet feels more and more like a hostile place, even here a bit. I keep running into identity politics that is WAY off my crackpottery scale, whenever I stray more than a degree of separation away from you lot. I've just got nowhere else to go.

Feeling very emotionally disconnected from everyone and everything, advanced to the point where it doesn't really bother me anymore, and that should probably concern me. Oh well. I'm 2600 miles away from... The Thing... and its other major players, and a little numbness and indifference might be the best thing after all.

I miss having a social life with any emotional or imaginative character to it whatsoever. It'll probably hurt a lot more in a few months in the profoundly likely event I am unable to fix it, but for now This Is Fine(TM).

Maybe we'll all die in a simultaneous multi-coast string of disasters, a hurricane and an earthquake hitting at the same moment, some Lars Von Trier-grade act of God's indifference and disgust. At this point, I'm not sure I wouldn't go down laughing.

@spacewastrel@snouts.online @kobi_lacroix Yeah, that pretty much nails the last two years of my life... *raises glass to you both in toast* Start our own hole with blackjack and unionized labor?

utter GoT schadenfreude

never put your faith in a franchise

never assume a series is "yours" somehow

if you've gotta obsess over an imaginary world, and it's gotta be tailored to your desires, dammit DIY

#moodsnapshot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Bp31R3Am0

@JulieSqveakaroo Ooo-ers! Also, I found what purports to be a bingo pinball emulator from a Dutch hobbyist. I'll letcha know if it's any good! And whether I can make heads or tails outta the gameplay!

@JulieSqveakaroo dammit :)

@Leucrotta Oh, I know about the Uighurs -- partly for culinary reasons (blush) and partly for the tragic ones you mention. But do please continue if you like. 😻​THIS was the kind of shit I'd always hoped to get taught as a history major, but nobody ever wanted to talk about anything but the "Great Empires." >__< Especially the various Turkic people's, I felt like they didn't get NEARLY the shrift their actual role in history deserved...

And yeah, equally tragically, I know about the Khazars mostly due to anti-Semitic shitheads and their conspiracy theories. >__<

@hummingrain Rather a pity to see Northgate survive. *smirk*

@Leucrotta You are so damn hot when you start talking about ancient peoples. *_*

@LeDiva ?

@JulieSqveakaroo Ok, I gotta find one of these... O_o

@Austin_Dern @JulieSqveakaroo Yeah, after the Seattle Pinball Museum (which also has old ballyhoo-style electromechanical tables), that was basically my gold standard for "holy crap, this is an amazing collection," and I was NOT disappointed one bit.

I wish I'd gotten a few snapshots of their workshop. Mind-blowing.

@JulieSqveakaroo Dammit roo, I haven't even finished the FIRST quest yet! :D

*changes out of the executioners' robes and changes into the initiation robes: one has been found Worthy and shall be brought into the Inner Circle*

Let the joy be without boundary.

@Phorm We're all working hard on the strategy guide. For now, just rack up as many bottle bonuses as you can and pray for an opening. <3

@JulieSqveakaroo It's BIZARRE, isn't it? I've been fascinated by bingo pinball for years, but this is the first I've had the faintest inkling how it actually works, let alone seen one in person. Next goal: finding one that actually WORKS, though apparently they do have it in emulation...?

@JulieSqveakaroo @Austin_Dern

Bragging rights. :D

Also saw one of these, but didn't get a photo due to awful lighting and non-functionality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfuF4jb-Cqc

@Phorm I mean, I might have a different take on it if I had more than one remaining Mans, but one's all we get. And dammit, it's a shit game, but I HAVE to at least try to see what's on level 75. :O

From a bootleg at the Pinball Church. Terrible game; undeniably sound advice.

Hi, Dad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM5dXBD1U_I

[Coverage of a really interesting surreal-comedy ARG by the inimitable and pettable NightMind. No known CWs besides VERY mild implications of domestic violence, identity disruption, Dad Bods, and some really awful dancing.]

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